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New Release: Tor Browser 8.0.2

This release features important security updates to Firefox. We picked up the necessary patches, but because we needed to start building before Mozilla was ready with a first candidate build, we did not bump the Firefox version to 60.2.2esr. Thus, users are fine with Tor Browser 8.0.2 even though the Firefox version is 60.2.1esr.

Known Issues

We already collected a number of unresolved bugs since Tor Browser 7.5.6 and tagged them with our tbb-8.0-issues keyword to keep them on our radar. The most important current issues are:

Tor Browser 8 is not starting anymore on CentOS 6. We have a fix in our 8.5a2 release to give it a bit of testing. Users affected by this bug may resort to that alpha version for now. We plan to backport the patch in the next stable release.

NoScript is not saving per-site permissions anymore. We have a potential patch for this bug in our 8.5a2 release as well and plan to backport it, too, in the next stable release in case no issues with it are found.

In the old version of tor (less than 8.0) i could download the source code and recompile it( change the number of nodes for example) and create a new tor.exe file and switch it with the tor.exe file that create with tor installation.
but now, in the new version of tor the 8.0 and above when im doing that i'm having error- 0xc00007b-which means that i'm working with 32 bit on 64 bit or 64 bit on 32 bit. i found work around way that i can install an old version of tor(less then 8.0 version) do the update to 8.0.2 and then i can change the tor.exe file without any error.
why this thing happens?

Having looked into a wide variety of Antiviruses and I think as far as free options go Avira's Antivirus has the best combination of protection and respectful privacy settings. You've just got to live with one self advertising popup every two days.
That being said: I am a random person on the internet. You can take my advice as a point to check out, but you should do your own research into reading privacy policies as well as test results. ;)

This new update has McAfee quarantined the update AGAIN. This happened with the last update 8.1 too and I left a comment about it then. I restored this quarantined thing just now and rebooted but McAfee still quarantined it again when I tried opening the browser. I'm now using TBB version 8.0 because that's the only downloader I hadn't deleted yet. I'm using Windows 10 64-bit.

I didn't see these addressed so I'll add them:
- Tor still doesn't remember the size of the browser window, so those of us who have the menu bar open, or addons for tabs, always end up with a unique sized window that is read read by whatever tab happens to be loading.
- I can't login to disqus. I have added it to the whitelist, to no avail.
- I wish you could get sync back.

I have those issues with Tor under Windows 7 SP1, Linux Ubuntu 16.04, and Linux Ubuntu 18.04.

Personally I don't care about that AddOn either, BUT: An AddOn not working might be an indicator of something else that's broken in the Tor browsers' code. For all we know this could be highly valuable feedback for the devs. Hence giving feedback shouldn't be discouraged. ;) It's still at least [i]related[/i] to the issues at hand.

Heh. You should have your own tests, guys! ;)
But, okay. Try to search something on youtube (Safest). You then have to enable Script on that page to see anything, but try to enable also Media and Fetch (beforehand, as they are not colored red yet). And you get in the console:
element has no “src” attribute. Media resource load failed. results
All candidate resources failed to load. Media load paused.

Also click on the first found video, and you get empty rectangle instead of media player on its page.

Websites can easily see the exact size of your browser window, so if you are using anything other than the Tor Browser default, they may be able to identify you, possibly even uniquely identify you. For this reason, TB discourages you from trying to resize the window. Since different devices (e.g. laptops, tablets) have differently sized and shaped "maximized" windows, TB suggests that you not maximize the window either.

This might be OT but i have a question, a new version of tor has been released, but i remember the previous one was showing where you were connected, like germany-france-usa. I cannot find this option anymore. Has it been removed or is it still there? Thanks.

A minor improvement of TBB8: I can reply to more than one comment here.
With previous TBB, blog.torproject.org's newer commenting software allowed only one reply, then the page disabled or hid the "Reply" link on every comment. The "Reply" links showed again after TBB restart. But as I recall, the faster workaround was to clear cookies or something else that did not require TBB restart.

Odd, I haven't been seeing that at all. In my recent experience at this blog (using the latest Tails, which uses the latest Tor Browser), as long as I set the slider below "Safest", and answer the captcha, the comment appears to be submitted properly (but presumably was nixed by the moderator, in cases where it never appears).

Ever since I updated to 8.0.2 the start up page is different. The page is purple and completely different than the last version that I had where I could check to make sure I was connected to Tor. Is this normal or have I been bugged?

I used to do this too. You could open the executable installer as an archive with 7-zip or other tools and extract it, and running it from the extracted folder would work the same as if you properly ran the installer to copy the browser into a folder. Not running executables from the web just seemed like the properly paranoid thing to do. I think I stopped because of a warning in the installation and usage instructions that any deviation from them means that the security benefits promised by TorBrowser can't be guaranteed.